Ali, who was the subject of the operation, handed an elongated sachet of suspected shabu worth P500 to a police poseur-buyer, the report said.

Nine sachets of suspected shabu and P750 in cash believed to be proceeds of the shabu sale were recovered from Ali, while the police confiscated a gray plastic canister tube containing two small sachets of suspected shabu and a cellular phone from Ledesma.

The seized suspected shabu was valued at about P.5 million.

Meanwhile, about 35 grams of suspected shabu worth P360,000 were recovered from Anjelyn Ariola in Barangay Alijis, Bacolod, at about 9 p.m. Wednesday.